Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-01-20
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FACT AND FANCY.

light this YEAR
Scented mucilage Is now thing in
polite stationery.
The president is said to receive nearly
1000 letters u day.
An Ar IONA paper politely speaks Of
a COW as "a she cattle"
The French government costs tho
taxpayers 500. 600 every hour.
II costs tho city of Cleveland, o., $40
a day to light the jail with gas.
In New York are five thousand so.
looms running without licenses.
A sweet potato twenty-oight inches
long is reported from Orlando, Fla.
A collector of coins at Senola, Ga.
owns Spanish coin that is lao years
old,
Women arc now employed as ticket
agents on u Staten Island (New York;
railroad
II is said that Mormons spend $3.50.
600 q year in maintaining lobby at
Washington,
A farmer near Winona, Miss, claims
to have raised li0 bushels of corn from
one acre of ground last season.
In Wostchester county New York,
last week. lawyers bill for $4,000
was cut down by the court TO $3.50,
An Oregon paper MIL gets paper
stock and jute butts from Calcutta for
the manufacture OF MANILA paper.
Wife-You haven't been inside of u
church since wc were married--there.
Husband--No; burned child breads
the fire
The Russian minister ut Washington
is allowed 1925, 900 a year by his govern
mont for the purpose of giving enter.
tainmonts.
Several Georgia farmers are serious
ly considering the question Of employ
ing Chinese in place of negroes ON their
plantations.
Mamma" asked little Carrie one
day, 'can you tell mo what part OF
heaven people live in who are good but
not agreoablep"
A company of the Washington terri
tory militia ut Seattle was recently or
ordered to lagt Blakcly to keep tho
strikers in check, and since tho return
of the troops to Seattle forty-seven Of
the members have resigned.
A cat made It's way into ono Of tho
Moncton, New Brunswick, churches
last Sunday evening and introduced n
now element of interest into tho pro.
cecdings by jumping over benches and
occasionally dropping into tho laps OF
members Of the congregation.
The question whether turkeys are an.
imals is perplexing n county court in
Georgia. Recently an old poutry-ven'
der was arrested for violating the state
statute against cruelty TO animals, be-
cause he carried turkeys with their
heads downward He claimed that tur.
keys were not animals, and that he did
not know il was cruel to carry turkeys
with their heads downward.
A correspondent Mt Somerville, Mass,
writes: ii have three trees OF tho rare
silver tree, now four years old and
three feet high, doing finely, They en-.
dure freezing solid without harm. and
they are rs beautiful rs they arc rare.
Found only In one place, they are now
nearly extinct, except for the few in
cultivation. Botanical name, Leucoden.
drum Argenteum.
Widow Flopjack-rm glad. parson,
that steps arc being taken to prevent
the exterminat on Of the American
singing birds. Parson Surplus (who
has been invited to dnner)-So am j.
Widow Flapjack, but at the same time
| am grateful TO Providence that chick.
ems don't know how to sing. Bring
on the fried chicken, Betsy" said the
Widow Flapjack.
A woman in Flatbush, Long island,
has brought suit against druggist for
$1,000 damages. Some time ago she
took two prescriptions to the drug
store to be filled. One was llniment,
the other to be taken internally. AS
he mixed the labels after filling the two
bottles she took the liniment IN internal
doses and rubbed herself with the other
stuff. Neither of them did her any
harm.
The following letter is said to be the
genuine production of 9-year-old
colored citizen Of South Carolina
Dear Affectionately Teacher: Use sor'
ry could not come TO school on Friday,
but couldn't cause IL rain an dat is dc
way IL go in dis world. II de LORD
shut dc door no man can open dc door.
II de Lord say open do door no mar
can shut dc door. II dc Lord say ii
rain, no man can stop it rain. But dc
Lord, He do all things well. And you
oughtn't to growl about it. Your af.
fectionately scholar"
"Ah." said the superintendent, land
here is Tommy Goodboy's missionary
Offering, $3.50. That will make some
little heather hearts glad. Now. tel
us how you got this money, Tommy
Eyes, SIR" said Tommy, speaking VI
loud and distinctly like the good boy
that he was, part Of it pa won OF
Change. some OF il ma won on crazy